Simon Hayes: Sound Mini Masterclass

Simon Hayes has been the Production Sound Mixer on films such as Les Misérables and Prometheus. In this video, he explains why working in sound is such a collaborative process, and the unique and intricate challenges he faced on Les Mis.
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[@sanjacobs6261]

Imagine being the sound team working on a Simon Hayes interview

[@cornergarageproductions9182]

They better use some carpet to get that extra 10%

[@pradeepchakraverti]

Awesome, simply awesome piece of work by Simon and his sound team.

[@jldaudio]

Oh! Shocking video. I loved hearing "secrets" about how the voices of "The Miresables" was recorded in such excellent way.
Thank you very much.

[@SoundSpeeding]

@0:56 Makes a solid case for why every feature film / tv series should have a minimum of four people!
(astonished though you got to have a sound department of 16 people on Cats, shows just what a challenge that was for sound)

[@guangosdude]

Loved every detail! Wonderful!

[@muvee69]

Fascinating and inspirational reading this. I wondered why they used a roof kind of boom on top of the boom mike instead of a Rainman/Kelly solution. But I guess this was beneficial for avoiding raindrops on the lavalier as well. I guess the "roof" was covered with hogs hair or something similar to avoid noise from the rain hitting it..?

[@jsuave666]

I am VERY interested to hear more about booming the makeshift roof during the rainy scene! Student filmmaker producing a short film set in a very wet dystopian setting.

[@sebaba001]

Wow!!

[@charlesisrecording]

amazing!

[@manfredg8410]

Certainly a Masterclass.

[@RobWatt]

simon hayes must have been a boxer at some point

[@dgibbrd]

BBJ black belt and instructor

[@RobWatt]

@@dgibbrd love to hear that

[@sanjacobs6261]

@@dgibbrd I've always been concerned about damaging my ears from BJJ, but always wanted to start. However, if Simon does it, it must surely be fine.